221: Chapter 221 Chen Changqing Returns

After a loud bang,

The Tier 2 Low Grade Formation protecting the Chen Family shattered with a crash. All the Chen Family members maintaining the Formation, including Chen Changyue, suffered backlash from this single blow.

Chen Yuanzhan and the others looked on in horror, not expecting the Formation to be shattered in the blink of an eye, leaving them with no time to react.

"Kill!" the gloomy-looking man said coldly.

Behind him, over twenty Qi Refining Cultivators all bypassed him to attack the Chen Family members.

Meanwhile, the gloomy-looking man cast his gaze toward the Chen Family's Family treasury.

Chen Yuanzhan was shocked; the Family treasury held the Chen Family's secrets and must absolutely not be exposed.

He hurriedly rushed toward the gloomy-looking man as a Tier 2 Low Grade Talisman bloomed in his hand.

Seeing this, Chen Changyue and Li Chenghui felt their hearts leap into their throats.

"Dad!" "Brother Zhan!" the two cried out.

Chen Yuanzhan's gaze was resolute and his heart filled with sorrow. It was not that he did not cherish his life, but if the Chen Family's secrets were uncovered, endless troubles would follow for the Family.

"Hmph! Ants!" the gloomy-looking man said mockingly.

Just as Chen Yuanzhan's Talisman was about to activate and strike the gloomy-looking man, the man slapped down with his palm toward Chen Yuanzhan's head.

Crack!

A crisp sound of bones breaking rang out without any warning.

"Ah!" the gloomy-looking man let out a miserable scream.

"Changqing," Chen Yuanzhan said in surprise.

"Dad!" Chen Changqing grabbed the gloomy-looking man's arm with one hand and held Chen Yuanzhan with the other, instantly extinguishing the Talisman the latter had already activated.

"Changqing, you're back!"

"Brother."

Li Chenghui and Chen Changyue cried out in excitement one after another.

Chen Changqing nodded toward them, then looked at the gloomy-looking man before him.

"You are Chen Changqing of the Chen Family?!" fluctuation appeared in the gloomy-looking man's tone for the first time.

Chen Changqing's fame was neither very large nor small, but most people within Taihe Prefecture had heard a thing or two. After all, being able to defeat a Foundation Establishment Cultivator at the ninth layer Perfection with fifth-layer Foundation Establishment cultivation—no matter how exaggerated the rumors were, the fact remained that this person had indeed defeated a ninth-layer Perfection Cultivator.

This point alone was enough; at least the gloomy-looking man admitted to himself that he was not yet this person's match.

"Oh, it seems Chen's reputation isn't small, is it? Even a petty rat like you knows my name," Chen Changqing said mockingly, and then he released the struggling gloomy-looking man.

Chen Changqing merely glanced at the surrounding Chen Family members locked in fierce combat and casually waved his hand, sending a surge of Spiritual Qi sweeping across the entire Wuyue Mountain.

Except for the four Foundation Establishment Cultivators, all the remaining Qi Refining bandit Cultivators perished in that single instant.

Such a method terrified everyone who saw it.

The Chen Family members looked at the Qi Refining bandit Cultivators who had suddenly dropped dead, and then at Chen Changqing, their eyes filled with awe and adoration.

Spirit Medicine Garden.

"Is that the Seventh Grand-Uncle? So powerful, he just casually executed these bandit Cultivators," Chen Lixuan said excitedly.

"That's only natural. Seventh Uncle is the strongest person in our Chen Family, and even the Patriarch of our Restoration. How could these petty scum compare to him?" Chen Lingjun's tone carried pride.

Chen Changjie and Chen Lingyang also looked over at that moment.

Upon seeing this terrifying display, the other three turned tail and fled immediately. Chen Changjie and Chen Lingyang withdrew their gazes and pursued them together.

The gloomy-looking man stepped back several steps. He had just sensed Spiritual Qi fluctuations that far surpassed his own—this wasn't just surpassing him by a single tier; it was simply like a firefly facing the bright moon. How could this be?

"You? You are a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, how is this possible?" the gloomy-looking man trembled all over, saying in disbelief.

Before he could finish speaking, Chen Changqing interrupted, "Who told you I am only at the Foundation Establishment Stage?"

"What? This is..."

Puff!

Before the gloomy-looking man could finish, the scene before his eyes suddenly flashed. Blinking again, he saw a pillar of blood spraying from the neck of a headless corpse not far away, and then the scene before his eyes slowly grew dim until he could no longer see anything at all.

Holding the gloomy-looking man's head in his hand, Chen Changqing casually cast a fireball to burn it to ashes. Without saying another half sentence to the rest, his figure flashed as he pursued the three Foundation Establishment bandit Cultivators.

Puff, puff, puff!

Several pillars of blood spurted consecutively. In the span of a single breath, all three Foundation Establishment bandit Cultivators died. Witnessing such strength, Chen Changjie and Chen Lingyang were shocked; if Chen Changqing hadn't refrained from attacking them, they would have thought the person before them was no longer the familiar Chen Changqing.

"Are you alright?" Chen Changqing asked.

"We're fine, Seventh Brother (Seventh Uncle)!" The two still hadn't fully reacted.

They hadn't expected that after Chen Changqing merely entered the Purple Mansion, his strength would undergo such a massive transformation.

However, they had indeed never seen any Purple Palace Cultivators make a move. They only knew they were very strong without having a concrete concept of it, but seeing it now, it was utterly terrifying.

"Oh, right, Lingtong and Lingyi are still on the way, they should arrive shortly," Chen Changqing said, then took out two bottles of Medicinal Pills and gave them to the two to heal their injuries.

Hearing this, the two put away the Medicinal Pills and immediately returned to the back mountain to begin recovering from their injuries.

Chen Changqing returned to the ancestral hall and fell into deep thought. The Chen Family was still too weak; apart from himself as a Purple Palace Cultivator and Chen Xuanyi at the fifth layer of Foundation Establishment, everyone else's cultivation was not high.

If he were to leave the Family, the danger facing the Chen Family would not be small, especially since the Family held quite a few legacies.

He felt somewhat helpless, but there was no other way right now. The Foundation Establishment Cultivators within the Family lacked time to improve their cultivation, and the Family had long since exhausted the resources previously obtained in the Wanta Sect Secret Realm. As such, it was time to gather some more resources.

Several days later.

After settling the Family members, Chen Yuanzhan came to the ancestral hall.

"Changqing, Lingtong and the others have returned," Chen Yuanzhan said.

Behind him, Chen Lingtong and Chen Lingyi walked in.

"Seventh Uncle," the two called out.

"Mhm, if you have nothing else, go back and rest first," Chen Changqing said.

The two nodded. Their speed was relatively slow, and they returned a few days later than Chen Changqing.

In fact, if not for them, Seventh Uncle would have returned to the Family long ago, and the Family would not have encountered this kind of trouble.

Feeling somewhat dejected, the two followed Seventh Uncle's words and left first.

More than ten days later, Chen Xuanyi and the others returned.

The Chen Family members immediately arranged lodgings for them.

Of the seven hundred plus Cultivators, less than two hundred returned alive. Aside from the death of several talented Family members, Chen Lingchuan had also died.

This person was Chen Changqing's nephew, and also the only surviving seedling of Chen Changqing's own elder brother.

Upon returning to the Family and facing Chen Changqing, Chen Xuanyi felt somewhat ashamed. As the Old Ancestor of the Chen Family, he had failed to protect the Family members, which truly made him feel mortified.

However, Chen Changqing did not blame him, and this wasn't his fault either.

If the Chen Family weren't too weak and lacking in usable talent, Lingchuan wouldn't have been sent to the battlefield. After all, the Chen Family's base camp needed people to look after it, and having Lingchuan follow Chen Xuanyi was partly to temper him and partly because staying by Chen Xuanyi's side was relatively safer.

"Ninth Grand-Uncle, matters have come to this, do not blame yourself," Chen Changqing shook his head and comforted him.